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MN Painting
April 1st
I believe in what I saw ⁃
I believe in the finished painting as record of what I saw at that moment, probably a bad
inconsistent effort but at least I have put it down and there is room for another though to come to the surface.
April 11th
I am listening now for the sound of the triple roll
All fields become striped from rolling and subtle patterns are appearing as the tractors harrow the newly
planted fields.
Birds hare/have a shadow across the ground and cloud patterns flock the earth.
April 28th
Hurrah for St George
At Theberton a large glad of red and white was pulling out into the sky.

as it was and bright it caught the eye and the tower, tall and well balanced below, grey in
colour and seen askew in passing.
Appearing to twist and be pulled out of true by the dominance of the flag.
Crayon done(?)
now do it
(on hardboard for texture)
and think as if you are standing below it on the edge of the grass (a(?) green allotment(?)
May 10th
Neither painters or paintings can be judged one against another
We are all individuals and are talking to ourselves
(in strong pen, easy to read could use scan rather than annotated text)
May 13th
Please come in and sit with me in my paintings.
May 16th
These are not great paintings.
I am just trying to say something about peace and calm and space round oneself.
May 29th
I am looking across the landscape not at it
a new venture- picking out the silent (?) features.
The first attempt is across the open landscape near Hempnall. Three churches stand out also the base of
one windmill in - otherwise a receding not very noticeable series of hedges, groups of trees, patches of
arable land.
Towards Gissing the immediate landscape is quite different, undulating grassland possible red parkland,
interspersed with mature trees, heavy in full leaf but still a light new green.
June 14th
Paul Klee is great because he found a way of saying exactly what he wanted to say
about what he thought
and about what he saw in his mind by drawing it out of the paper.
June 23rd
I should like to have been a stone mason and kept racing pigeons at the bottom of the garden in black and
white striped huts.
Learning both skills diligently amongst rows of well grown vegetables.
I can make bread and the hens will lay eggs.
What more could you want

Also a bell ringer at night.
June 25th
Of all the types of painting I love the wall paintings of Pompeii and Herculaneum. The freedom of those at
knows us (?) and the Etruscan (?) tomb paintings - seen only of course in reproductions.
On seeing any original painting after the familiar postcard reproduction, the scale is often astonishing generally much larger but occasionally smaller and with less surprise.

Often of course, more brilliant with colour and energy, but sometimes again a milder painting
than the condensing of the reproduction would suggest.
July 11th
A new painting 88
Wild flowers will soften the stiffest lady
It will be difficult to do, but i will try. On the common a lady walks stiffly along in her best suit and hat.
She rounds the corner by the water tyrant and red rusty pipes, to be suddenly confront by a wall of dog
roses. The path bends round the bushes and then straightens out again.
The poppies are red and shouldn’t be there.
The sky is mediaeval blue. The clouds are white.
The lady stops and takes off her jacket and reveals a soft yellow blouse.
She stops to smell flowers that have no sent(?) and goes on her way - her stiffness gone.
September 21st
Tethered animals pull to the extent of their tether and leave circular chewed patches in the grass.
December 21st
By any means at their disposal a great artist says exactly what he wants to say, and we acknowledge it. e.g.
Femme an corsage a fliers Lithograph. Picasso ’57 (check)
While using smooth board it seems desirable to use the roughness which canvas dictates, but while working
on a large rough canvas I would like the delicacy of a smooth surface to slide over. We always want what we
can’t have.

Notes not in diary - use as text in book
I understand now that I am painting what is left of the ‘Paradise Garden’, in the cold clear light of a
shadowless dream, in the faith that it still exists in my country, and that it is there for anyone who wishes to
seek it, and walk in it.

-

MN Travel
23rd May
The lighthouse stood unmoving - the rocks Immobile

the sky moving fast, horizontally, and of into the South West.

the water heaving and ‘boiling’ up and down, sucking wildly at the rock base.
Waves are like tongues but cold and white as they lick at the rough surfaces. The foaming rises as with its
own energy.

Water drops on the edge of the foam are spit smoke and mist from hidden Welsh valleys.
Rises and sucks up the sides of the rocks in the same mysterious (silent) way. It hangs also rather like steam
from a boiling kettle in a warm small kitchen.
Rocks against the light seem to project sharp teeth edges in anger and self defence as the teeth of a dog
seem when caught against the light.
I like the contrast of rounded stones and rocks which are not so much eroded as softened by careening, not
gashed by biting.
Little sea urchin fossil where have you been all this time. Am I the first person to pick you up - or did early
man in Metfield pick you from the soil and throw you down as an unknown symbol of magic, and leave you
for someone else to pick up.


Remember the hairy mammoth at Homersfield.

28th June
In Wales now the sun would be pushing to shine in the gaps between the mountains, and small adiabatic
clouds would be sitting like white hats on all the mountain peaks stretching out into the distance.
R.S Thomas The Place from Not That He Brough Flowers (book of poems)
Martins - a lack in this house as we have no martins
I used to watch them for hours wheeling and returning to the window with balls of soft mud to attach to their
last years walls.

patting the soft ball in place with their beaks, pressing in hard, twisting their beaks to make a
cleaner release.
The young ones leaned out from their hole into the daylight wings still pinioned like figureheads on a wooden
ship.
ref. Figure heads at Trinity House Yarmouth and inadequate drawings
ref. Figureheads staring out to sea at the Fishermans rest Southwold.
September 19th
I would like to go back to Wales, to the Conway Valley to Conway Castle
and to follow the estuary down as it narrows towards the hills.
Sedges as the tide came in
(catalogue)
Little fishes have such freedom not knowing their hazards
December 20th
If it is dull when travelling, I can always look at roofs and wires.
Poles and wires divide the skyline and quarter the spaces between the buildings. Here is a good start
anyway to an interesting subject.

-

MN Animals
January 2nd
New Naples yellow
This bright naples yellow I saw round he yes of a frog - inside it a soft orange to ring the eye - inside that a
deep green of the eye itself which came from the side of the tank. The vertical ridges of the tank were soft
viridian and rain bowing at the corners.

May 19th
A caterpillar very very close.
Rows of hairs many more than can be drawn.
The front segments and mouth parts seem to drop off towards me. 2 red marks like eyes glowing in each
segment.
It turns its head towards me,
and the shadows of the spines fall across its body.

June 6th
Pigs frighten.
They often have left covered with mud, high up and appear as if they are wearing long socks.
This combined with the fact that they are poised high on their hoofs, gives them a ludicrous appearance as if
wearing shoes with high heels.

June 27th
The 1st bee died of cold
The 2nd bee was trodden on
The 3rd bee died in the rain
the 4th bee died of too much blossom

poor dead bee
Some bees do not die but remain on their backs confused.
(This reads like a description in a bestiary)
July 1st
Norfolk Show
Very old ram falling asleep sitting on his haunches in the rare breeds survival trust tent
handbook of rare breeds & cards/calfs?
The largest charollais(?) bull I have ever seen at the A I(?) tent
Goats again alerted at the entry of large bunches of leafy branches - it was exactly same as seen 2 years
ago (see notes) remember the stripes in the bee tent everyone quietly busy.
British whites with wonderful translucent skin slightly patched with blue grey. Above these patches, at
random, darker hairs of paynes(?) grey-black.
Heavy horse judging - magnificent with their strong arched necks and spectacular trimmings.
I waited for the hot air balloons, down wind behind the trees but didn’t see them.
I drew the jacob sheet again & again as usual - animals carrying black and white have an immediate appeal
(remember belted galloway at Cotswold Farm park Guiting power(?).

August 1st
Harvest spider walking down a green path between 2 brick walls (Metfield) after a fête.
It’s body was a sunken red velvet (painting in watercolour)
Its shadow on the grass reseda green
Its body was sprung on the wide delicate legs as alight
Velvet cushion on a spiders web.

August 20th
Today I was looking at a striped insect (wasp?) as it paused in the sun on the terrace.
The shadow it case was deep and long, stretching ahead from the proboscis.
At that moment a large noisy aircraft flew over as they are want to do here. Its shadow immediately covered
and extended that of the insect, so that it appeared to have an aeroplane for a shadow,
a moment in time - there is is - or was
I drew it quickly. (see painting)

September 5th
A red underwing
It ran along the table towards me as I drew it and even sat on the page wrapping a leg round the pencil.
Observers book of common insects and spiders p977
"When disturbed the moth will run along like a mouse seeing shelter instead of taking to the wing”

September 14th
Swans today swimming or pushing along in water made of lead.
They made a dent only in the water about 1ft ahead of the forage of the crop. This was encased in a float of
bubbled.
The breast bone could be seen half white under the water - the legs extended black backwards.
Wings and tail sculptured by the light.

September 15th
I wish the geese would go away. They press so close with button eyes. Their beaks are faceted - angular as
a church steeple in Lincolnshire.
You thought they were white but look again.
The are eating the roses and their feathers glow pink.

-

MN The English Countryside
Brown notes in drawing folder:
distant spires
tall black steeples
sequence: seeing something you expect to happen

- behind flower banks
- suddenly seen on turning a corner
- behind people on sky line

- set in hollow in a landscape
- contrast to church if average church
- church towers

May 2nd
Walking again to Floridan common brings to mimd vividly the day I trod hard on a grass snake and our
subsequent fright and panic
Starting yet again:
4 stages in the panic of the snake I disturbed
May 7th
We went late to the river, which was overhung with leafy trees. The sun was setting to the left and very very
quickly the remaining light was daring away. Into this graded green gently rowed a boat containing two pink
ladies. The rower was in plastic viridian and the boat was cream. Within a few seconds they had glided into
the dark brown green shadows.
May 7th
Momentarily a squared ginger and white horse stood awkwardly under a crab apple tree. The shadows were
mauve. The Vision was my own.

August 9th
Flies on the water in abundance - trout rising and weeds flowing horizontal in the water.

August 28th
Don’t worry, the shells will all wash back into the sea.
The dandelion will push up through the asphalt.
The man will whistle and none will hear him.
The grass will push through the paving stones and cover us all.
The country is companionable. Towns are not.
September 5th
Saw rafts of bubbles on a swollen river
one day I will try again to paint.
Mountain bubbles carrying views of mountains
bubbles, inside them contain inverted view of the landscape.
Raindrops having on a twig, each contain a perfect view upside down of the immediate small patch of hedge
infront of me, surrounded often by Rainbow edges
Rainbows in the sky cannot be effectively shown in paint.
September 28th
A river is a fine place to sit. The river is going somewhere and you are not. There is very slight activity all the
time. There is a sense of travelling - either you can go with it, conjure up the view round the next corner.
Look back and recreate its passage in your mind.
Better to be going somewhere all the time - however slowly.

November 18th
Remember the caterpillar hanging on invisible threads - seen through the hole in a leaf - in the distance a
football match in progress.

-

MN Figures
The feast of guardian angels
here today - a pure thin October sky
transparent leaves on the trees, many fallen so the guardian angels will show if they are in the sky
of angles in paintings
- with figureheads on ships sometimes truculent
- always looking past us, ignoring us, out to sea, very proud
ref. stars as our umbrella still
guardian angels not always benign as we would have been led to believe
hard vacant faces looking through me, ignoring me, as a figurehead on a passing ship
guardian only of the idea of a vulnerable human being.
Go back to the sailors reading room in Southward and look hard at the figureheads, redraw the beach, the
moving shingle, the wet stones, the insistent to and fro of the waves - also impersonal - man is not important
at all.
but our ideas are important so we must put them down in concrete form before we die.
Yes of course we believe we have guardian angels an interesting proposition to ask people what their
particular angels look like.
October 2nd

A new theme - how men carry colour with them
- men carrying flags (Snape)
- morris dancers
- man with a bunch of gladiola
- man coming round the corner. Walpole (just where I expected him to)
- a man balancing a tray of geraniums on the handlebar of his bicycle
- man with red waistcoar sitting on the river bank
- man with heavy bunches of gladioli coming down the steps of the quayside to board the paddle steamer
crossing the Humber from Hull
- man cycling in a field of gold
- country men putting a rose in their caps
- man in running shorts and coloured vest running through the forest
- footwalkers with striped vest (early oil paris)
- walker with planatins
- walker kicking up moths from the side of the dusty road
10th August
Remember how men carry colour with them as flowers

- in hats
- in buttonholes
- on bicycles, front and back
- on boots caught up
- or stuck on clothes
October

Struggling to paint the girl from Guernsey gathering limpets.
She is emerging from an already beautiful background so that every new mark is vital and unalterable
Trying to control the blues, depth, texture, overall balance of Girl with Butterfly Brooch Gathering Limpets
The narrative content the oddness of the juxtaposition of butterfly brooch, bladderwrack seaweed and close
clinging, strongly patterned limpets all set between slippery rocks.
The painterly content is impossible to explain to anyone who was not used to a similar problem.
No the cobalt violet on the left has picked up and out the pink on the right. It’s interesting and something to
play on but not what I intended.
(Bring in the sky light on the wet seaweed)
January 19th
Girl with limpets - All blues controlled and startling
One dot on the blue skirt has anchored it to the background on a level with the seaweed. Now the limpets on
the right rock have shot out of place. Only patience will bring them back again.
January 25th
Girl with butterfly brooch, St Peter Port, Guernsey
Finished, breathtakingly in seconds when I thought I was just laying it out
Yellow ocine(?) onto pink - cream - picking up pink on rocks on right - rough blocking in of further rocks which
by a miracle ringed round the head at the same level on the surface of the canvas.
Although I had intended details they cannot be added.
February 1st
Girl with Limpets
Falling into the canvas with exhaustion but it’s done
I wanted it to be Bizarre but it has come out delicate
February 4th
Along Tivetshall long mile. A man was burning wood.
The smoke was really blue. the bluest I have ever seen. The man wore blue working dungarees and the
tractor was also blue.

blue and yellow are the colours of spring.
Blue of the triple roll.
Blue of the fertiliser bags and many other patterned ones swell.
March 24th
March 17th
The dog had spots, the lady had a spotted dress. By that time the sky had spots too, but of a different colour.
(draw this quickly)
April 1st
Watched a lady dropping bread on a swan

I cast my mind to goats and light and darkness inside a tent.
See - Royal Norfolk Show
April 11th
May 15th
Feathers and straw going up in birds beaks and falling on our heads
gaudy birds
(feathers falling on a quiet man)
May 15th
Two trains met and passed. At the rear of each one in the window a man was reading a newspaper. In
belated pairs(?) a party of young heifers careered off up the hill away from the trains. All the young willows
were in leaf.

June 23rd
I should like to have been a stone mason and kept racing pigeons at the bottom of the garden in black and
white striped huts.
Learning both skills diligently amongst rows of well grown vegetables.
I can make bread and the hens will lay eggs.
What more could you want
Also a bell ringer at night.
July 5th
Tivetshall long mile - all grasses flowing in a pink
Again I have seen a man with a bicycle holding a large bunch of sweet williams
ref - lady with sweet williams walpole
man seen on next visit in the same lane, (walpole church spire above the bank)
coming round the corner, in the distance, towards me wheeling a bicycle and carrying on his handlebars a
large bunch of flowers
It seems country people visit each other on bicycles still and take with pride a bunch of flowers, that they
have grown, to their friends.
Often in the country garden a row of flowers is grown for cutting e.g. sweet williams, gladioli, chrisantherum,
sweet pea (in abundance)
a sea of bloom
note on side of page - What better than a bunch of flowers. Your friend will love them and will give you some
in return. I wonder what they will be.
The fox
red - also man with a gladioli (oil painting) - done
man with a gladioli coming down sloping ramp to get on the ferry across the Humber(? maybe she meant
Harbour) (Hull side) small drawing note
ref - man with a tray of geraniums balanced on his handlebars

July 7th
To Diss by bus.






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